RAKSHA VASUDEVAN / WRITER
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Selected features

  • "3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches" WIRED. May 2025.
  • "The Fate of Denver’s Last Slaughterhouse Is on the Ballot" Civil Eats. October 2024.
  • "North Denver’s green space paradox: Will a billion-dollar infrastructure project heal a Colorado community — or displace its residents?"​ High Country News. December 2023. 
  • ​"This Tiny Fishing Town Was Poisoned By a Coal Plant. The Government Is Trying to Replace it With a Mine." VICE World News. March 2021. 
  • "As food insecurity soars in north Denver, a Latina-led rapid response team is supporting the city’s most vulnerable families." The Counter. July  2020. ​​

Other reporting

  • "The mother-daughter duo fighting fossil fuels in Colorado." High Country News. October 2024. 
  • ​​"Can affordable housing for Indigenous communities work?" High Country News. February 2024.
  • "Will changes at San Gabriel Mountains National Monument serve LA’s communities of color?" High Country News. May 2024.
  • ​​"They got jobs in the growing solar industry – but the reality was less sunny than they expected." The Guardian. August 2023. 
  • ​​"A Colorado city put a cap on new housing – and proved why it doesn’t work." ​The Guardian. August 2023. ​
  • ​"How Some Women Are Remaking the Workplace to Better Suit Their Lives." The New York Times. September 2021. 
  • "'I Spent Much of My Career Listening to White Folks Complain About Africa and Africans': an interview with Stephanie Kimou." GEN Mag. September 2020. 

Selected Essays

  • "The Immigrant Experience in a Danish Butter Cookie Tin." NYT Magazine. June 2023.
  • ​"Functionally White: What I Didn't Say About Being South Asian in Uganda." Off Assignment.  March 2024.
  • ​"Madras Cloth Unites the World​." Harper's Bazaar. May 2023.
  • ​"Signs of Life." Hazlitt. June 2022. (Nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award)
  • ​"What Runs Beneath." Guernica. September 2021.
  • "We keep fleeing wildfires. Soon, there may be nowhere left that’s safe." The Washington Post. September 2020.
  • "A Lawsuit Against Meta Shows the Emptiness of Social Enterprises." WIRED. July 2022.​
  • "Writing About Binyavanga Wainaina." Los Angeles Review of Books. June 2019.
  • "Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis." LitHub. May 2019.
  • ​"Bone Memories." The Threepenny Review. Winter 2019​. (Print only, "Notable" in Best American Essays 2020)​​
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